Exhibition - Lauren Quin
My Hellmouth
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition: 21 January - 18 June 2023
Lauren Quin. My Hellmouth, 2022
Oil on canvas, 78 x 156 inches (198.12 x 396.24 cm), Courtesy of the Artist, Blum & Poe and Friends Indeed
Opening: Saturday, January 21
Artist talk and reception: March 2, 2023
My Hellmouth, a solo exhibition by Lauren Quin, demands attentions with vibrant and electric colours, diving and bridging the gap between intense personal and vague universal understanding. As shown in her previous work, if you delve too deeply into either, you will inevitably loop back into the other, creating an endless loop of opposites.
Through internal and external-, macro and micro means of communication, Lauren Quin reveals her pulsing imagery and leaves her mark on your mind. There is so much more meaning in her work that hides and lures behind the colour and the blends of her brush. Quin’s work arise from layering and repeating shapes and symbols, leaving no blank space. Quin uses a form she refers to as the tube in her work, which is a recurring motif in her pieces. Volumetric prisms are reminiscent of the wide bands of colour and shadows. When overlapping, they create a shifting crooshatch. Quin’s tubes are consistent in their weight and occurence in her compositions.
Quin’s recent exhibition in Shanghai, China (2022), featured her composition, Sagittal Fours, which features cut spirals that lays down the language of our bodies and the constant motion and movement of our beings. The thin carvings of mouths, tunnels and hands protrude from Quin’s infamous volumetric tubes; multilyings and embedded to create an inevitable blend of an echo. Vocal Fry, a painting series by Quin, represents the phenomenon where the strain and irritation of someone’s throat and the crackling of their voice becomes overwhelmingly audible and irritates your senses. Lauren Quin took this as inspiration for her compositions in this painting series, which was presented at the Four One Nine space by the Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, California (2021). The distorted, yet beautiful, images of overlapping tubes recreate te vivid image of the interior of the throat. These images are not for everyone, but they have a definite impact on your mind. These paintings were composed using finger painting techniques to give a more brutal and distinct texture.
The World over
Oil on canvas, 72 x 94 inches (182.9 x 238.8 cm), 2021
Quin approaches each composition as a problem that needs to be solved through continous growth and evolvement of her approaches and refining her techniques. Quin has definitely developed a new language that electrifies the industry unlike any other artist. Quin’s paintings are in high demand as they radiate her electric energy with lines in motion and humming figures that speak with each brushstroke, revealing a ccontrasting layered meaning.
About:
Lauren Quin (b. 1992, Los Angeles, California) is an electric artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Quin hold an MFA from the Yale School of Art, New Haven, and an BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago III. Her recent solo exhibitions include Pulse Train Howl, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California (2022); Vocal Fry, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, California (2021); Lauren Quin: Bat’s Belly, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2021); among others. Quin has been included in numerous group exhibitions, most recently including Fire Figure Fantasy: Selections from ICA Miami’s Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida (2022); On Boxing, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California (2021); Vaster than Empires, Friends Indeed, San Francisco, Califonia (2022); 100! A group exhibition commemorating Loyal’s 100th show, Stockholm, Sweden (2020); among others. Quin’s most famous work is Airsickness, which she sold in 2022. Quin’s work resides in numerous public collections including in the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; ICA Miami, Florida; Pheonix Art Museum, Pheonix, Arizona and Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minneapolis.
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Sources:
https://kcstudio.org/lauren-quin-my-hellmouth-and-priya-suresh-kambli-i-am-an-american-i-am-an-indian/
https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Lauren-Quin--My-Hellmouth/09323F68AFB4CF6C
https://www.blumandpoe.com/news_item/lauren_quin_sagittal_fours_pond_society_shanghai_china
https://ocula.com/art-galleries/blum-poe/artworks/lauren-quin/trapdoor/
https://friendsindeed.art/works/lauren-quin-the-world-over
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